Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 03/2010

President Obama's International Tax Proposals Could Go Further

Reuven S . Avi-Yonah

February 2010

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment

Abstract

The author argues that the Obama Administrations 2011 international tax proposals represent a very cautious first step toward making US multinationals pay their fair share of the tax burden and that coordination with our FDI partners would allow the Administration to go even further.